Saturday, July 11, 2026

"Well, okay then, who gave

  them the coconut rum cake?" 
  "The Congo Line," one kid said, smiled with missing teeth, and belched. 
  "HE DID!" A girl pointed then crossed her arms. 
  The grown up pushed the den door open farther. 
  A man on the sofa covered in girls. 
  "Tellie!  (i)How dare you(i)
  The man stood.  The girls on his lap falling to the floor, his hands saluting and rolling out a red carpet in the air, and then into his pants pocket for cigarettes and lighter. 
  "(i)Just drop in without notifying anyone(i)." 
  "I'm not dead, why would I send notification?!" 
  The lady swooshed a clinging child weighing on her skirt.  "But still," 
  "But still nothing.  I was all over the place.  On TV." 
  "On TV," the lady repeated, her mind swimming. 
  "She's fainted!  Get me the ice bucket." 
  The bunny girls fanned the lady with a Reader's Digest and TV Guide.


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